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5 Second Films (or 5SF) is a website run by a group of actors and writers that regularly produce short films. These short films last exactly five seconds (8 seconds, if you count the title card and 'The End'. But don't pay attention to that). The subject of said films are almost completely random, with only a few subjects and characters referenced more than once.

Their website can be found here. In addition, they have a YouTube channel; useful, since it has some of their earlier videos that are no longer accessible on their main site.

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Compare Vine, a social media website which ran on a similar concept using six-second video clips.

These films provide examples of:

All There in the Manual: The descriptions for most of the videos usually give backstories or epilogues to the films. The Halloween ones are particularly detailed, with each reading like a short horror story.

April Fools' Day: As an April Fool's prank in 2009, the team took out most of their preceding content and replaced it with an... interesting web animation called "Telekats".

As Himself: The actors usually play themselves; notable recurring roles include Jon Worley as a sleazy/demonic spokesman of the same name, and Paul Prado as Pauly P, a Cloudcuckoolander fitness instructor.

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Artifact Title: Sometimes, they fit a bit more content into the episodes by continuing the audio into the ending frame.

The Baby Trap: Parodied in "The One". A guy and girl are about to do the deed, and she asks him if he's sure that she's the one for him. He reassures her, and is then shown poking holes in his condom while whispering that he's gonna make her "the one". Still quite creepy.

Banana Peel: Subverted in "Paul Vs. Banana". Paul doesn't slip on the banana peel lying on the street, but instead gets hit by a car driven by a giant banana.

Crashing Dreams: In the video "And The Winner Is...", Michael Rousselet dreams that he wins the Academy Award, only to be dumbfounded when he's handed a golden steering wheel. Then it's shown that he fell asleep behind the wheel before crashing his car.

Dead Artists Are Better: Parodied and invoked in "Art Lover". A client asks a painter if his art has any value, and the replies replies "no". The client then kills the artist so the paintings' prizes will sky-rocket.

Fan Disservice: "The Pool Boy" starts off with a pool boy looking at a blonde girl in red massaging herself and licking her lips seductively at him. Then he takes off his glasses, revealing that he has no eyes, and says "What's goin' on?"

The Board of Highly Scientific Review & Science, as you can no doubt imagine, went on to publish several papers based on Dr. Firenzis findings, the most prominent of which were titled Zhoo! Zhoo! Zhoo! And the Neurotechnological Capabilities Therein by Dr. Sandoval, and Pew, Pew: A Rebuffing of Dr. Sandovals Hasty Assertions, by Dr. Gunn. Dr. Firenzi himself disappeared from the eye of the medical world and has yet to resurface, after several long years.

This, in turn, led to a very testy argument between Ben and Peter that only got angrier and loudier and gunnier, until Peter shot his gun in self-defense. The cops came almost as fast as the fire trucks. Unsure of where to hide his murder weapon in a house full of suspicious bric-a-brac, Peter realized he wasn't limited to just Where, but When. Knowing he shouldn't disrupt the time-space continuum too much, he bought himself a few minutes time by zipping back to just before he and Ben got in that argument, gun in hand. This, in turn, led to a very testy argument between Ben and Peter that only got angrier and loudier and gunnier, until Peter shot his gun in self-defense.

Overly Long Name: The pianist from Big in Japan is called "BoywhowillonedayplaythepianowithwhatIhopetobeamighty Johnson", his father's name is "Youngboywhoshallharnessthepowerofhisingeniousballsacktocommandeerthesaxophone Johnson" and HIS father is called...Reggie Johnson, "who could fuck a bassoon real good."

"Thanks for calling 911, brought to you by Budweiser, the king of beers! And Emergency. And Hush Puppies. And-" * thud*

"Psycho" Shower Murder Parody: "The Early Bird Killer", in which the presumably eponymous serial killer comes to kill a girl in the shower. The twist is that she had already been killed by another serial killer, who is currently taking a shower in her place.

His brother, always one to try and copy Trucks genius with wordplay, had his name legally changed to Ama Pan, but never found the chance to have his last name spoken first in any setting. Plus, he lost his Halen tape anyway.

And then there's Everyday Dubstep, which features Paul being cursed by a hipster Sadako. "Before you die, you see the empty scenester hype."

Week 151 is "5 Second Films: Special Edition", where the team has taken pot shot after pot shot at George Lucas and his "improvements" of the original Star Wars trilogy, either adding in needless Conspicuous CGI to classic videos, bowlderizing some of the more vulgar ones, or editing them in ways that are Completely Missing the Point and ruining the original joke. Brian looks like George Lucas, sitting in his director's seat the whole time in front of nothing but green screens, and having a constant cup of coffee in his hand, along with a Suspiciously Similar Song version of the Star Wars opening playing after each video, and in the last one they used footage and sound clips from Episode III (Darth Vader's NO! scene)

The description of The Popular Girl's Graduation Speech explains that, despite the popular girl managing to rise above her teenage pregnancy to a six-figure job, her baby grew up to be a hateful piece of shit, because her mom wouldn't stop listening to late-period Bon Jovi.

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